Miss Topsham pageant returns in 162nd Topsham Fair

TOPSHAM — The Topsham Fair is bringing back the Miss Topsham Fair Pageant for the first time this century.

The 162nd fair runs this year from Tuesday, Aug. 9, through Sunday, Aug. 14.

Audrey Thames – Miss Maine 2014, a Miss America contestant, and daughter of former Topsham Public Works Director Wes Thames – will run the pageant, to be held at Area 3 on Friday, Aug. 12, at 5 p.m. The winner will receive a $500 scholarship.

The fair also features monster truck shows, demolition derbies, live music, fireworks, and recalls the 302-year-old town’s agricultural heritage.

Marilyn Hunter, the fair’s director of entertainment and marketing, said fairs are more important than ever, since they showcase a way of life not every family experiences at home anymore.

“People can get in touch with the side of agriculture that has to do with how their food is made, and what goes into farming,” Hunter said last week.

The Topsham Fair has always been a part of Hunter’s life. Her great-grandfather, grandparents, great uncle and cousins all served on the fair board. Hunter has been on the board since 2008, a few years after moving back to the area after graduating college.

A Maine native and Colby College graduate, Alex has been covering coastal communities since 2001, and currently handles Bath, Topsham, Cumberland, and North Yarmouth. He and his wife, Lauren, live in the Portland area, and Alex recently released his third album of original music.

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hummm…. thank you very much for this latest in information in an area which I remember quite fondly during my discovery of Cumberland county during the years 1991 – 2010 as a visiting member of the ancient and often ignored diaspora of origin known officially as: francophone canadien alias Captain Canuck.